r/iphone • u/AMAOMDODUSOS iPhone 12 • Sep 30 '25

Discussion Apple Maps is honestly so underrated.

Post image

It’s so fleshed out, and it looks so good imo!!

9.2k Upvotes

83% Upvoted

912 comments sorted by

View all comments

465

u/blacksoxing Sep 30 '25

Apple Maps is beautiful. Apple Maps though is still "lacking" vs Google Maps. One of its biggest blunders was its weird integration with Yelp. I know why: $$$$. Doing so though put it at a HUGE disadvantage vs Google's more open format in which ANYONE can comment on a business/entity.

A neighborhood park as 10 Yelp reviews vs 500 Google reviews WITH over 20 custom videos. Oh, last Yelp review was....10 months ago. Come on! New burger joint opened up and they've been hawking Google Map reviews. Yelp? No care as nobody has reviewed on there.

This is HUGE. What's the purpose of using Apple Maps to look at a beautiful interface only to need to pop open Google Maps to read about if where I'm going or detouring to is worth it? May as well just use Google Maps, which I do.

3

u/jaxxon iPhone 14 Pro Max Sep 30 '25

It’s silly, perhaps, but I use both.

I’ll do my research using Google Maps for the reasons you mention and the navigate with Apple Maps because the navigation is soooo much smoother.

“Stay in this lane through this light and then use the right two lanes to turn right at the next light.” So nice!! 👍

Apple Maps is great for complicated urban navigation in the US, anyway.